Copy & Paste this template in a Canvas assignment to invite your students to remind your students about the opportunity to submit Student Course Feedback.

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Student Course Feedback Assignment

At the end of the semester you have an opportunity to give me anonymous feedback about your experience in this course. I value your feedback and review it carefully. Your feedback is also reviewed by department chairs, deans, vice presidents. Although your personal identification is not linked to your responses, course evaluations are important, formal documents. You should submit your feedback after serious contemplation of the course, the instructor, and the student’s own performance and commitment to learning. Click here to learn about what happens with your feedback.

Submit Your Feedback

Click Here to Submit Your Feedback

To complete this assignment, review the following guidelines and then fill out your Student Course Feedback survey from the University. You can access the survey using the "Course Feedback" link in our Canvas course or go to https://scf.utah.edu. For more information about how to submit your feedback, click here.

Student Guidelines for Course and Instructor Feedback from the U's Center for Teaching Excellence

Although your personal identification is not linked to your responses, course evaluations are important, formal documents.

The results are read not only by the instructor, but also by department chairs, deans and vice presidents. They become part of the instructor’s permanent file and are used in determining whether the instructor should be retained, promoted, or given tenure at the university. They may also be used in granting teaching awards and are often read by various committees. Students should only complete their surveys after serious contemplation of the course, the instructor, and the student’s own performance and commitment to learning.

• DO give the instructor credit for the good aspects of the course. This includes the overall course organization, reading selection, assignments, syllabus, lectures or activities, comments on papers, willingness to meet with students outside of class, or concern for students. Comment on an effective class session, reading or assignment.
• DO make your comments constructive. Instructors are often interested in improving their courses and sometimes try different approaches which may or may not work. Give specific suggestions as to how the course could be improved (e.g., more timely return of assignments, assignments spread out more over the course of the semester, more group work, another possible text, a helpful article or video).
• DON'T make emotional or “knee-jerk” statements, such as “This course stinks!” If the course material was not interesting to you, if the instructor seemed unfair, if the students in the class seemed uninspired, write these comments and give examples to illustrate what went wrong. Make clear what efforts you made to try to improve the learning process for everyone involved.
• DON'T comment on the instructor’s physical appearance. Focus on items directly related to learning. If an instructor has a distracting or nervous habit, or speaks too softly, he or she will want to know.

Instructors appreciate student comments, so please take the time to fill out course surveys. It shows concern when you take the time carefully to evaluate the course and your own learning.